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(1/15/2015) Further solidifying his bond with UMass Lowell and Chancellor Marty Meehan, Gov. Charlie Baker stopped in Lowell during his second day on the job to congratulate the school on $8 million in funding.

(1/15/2015) While Boston would be the city that officially hosts the games, the bid suggests holding rowing events on the Merrimack River in Lowell, and perhaps Lowell could also host boxing at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell, and a satellite athletes' village.

(1/15/2015) Ten years in the making, the long-running story of the Biggest Book in the World on Peace may finally be nearing the end of its tale. As the years passed, the book grew so big that it was found that the pages could not be turned the way those in an ordinary book could and so, engineering students from UMass Lowell were recruited to design an automatic page turner to do that.

(1/15/2015) Mike Baird, a Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust member who leads occasional bird walks, suggests visiting the open water behind the UMass Lowell Tsongas Center, where people might see common goldeneye ducks.

(1/14/2015) Mia Bloom, a terrorism expert at the Center For Terrorism and Security Studies at UMass Lowell, said some analysts have speculated that recently the group used two kidnapped girls, as young as 10, in suicide bomb attacks at a marketplace in the northeastern part of the country.

(1/15/2015) Sevo Nutraceuticals Inc. announced that PERCEPTIV™ Phase II clinical trial results were published this month in the online version of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. PERCEPTIV is its clinically proven, cognitive health supplement available to the public without a prescription. UMass Lowell professor Thomas Shea and his research team completed a Phase II Clinical Trial.

(1/13/2015) In his first stop at a college campus since he was sworn into office five days ago, Gov. Charlie Baker helped unveil $8 million in new funding for programs at UMass Lowell — including a $4 million state technology grant — at Massachusetts’ second-largest public campus, which has seen marked growth in recent years.

(1/14/2015) Rob and Donna Manning have given their alma mater a total of $10 million, earning Robert Manning the recognition of having the business school named after him. Their latest contribution came in the form of $4 million to be used for state-of-the-art facilities for the nursing and business programs, as well as a fund to reward exemplary UMass professors.

(1/14/2015) To find out what's hot in Lowell, turn to the COOL Street Team, a new pilot program developed by the Cultural Organization of Lowell (COOL) to engage younger audiences in the city's vibrant cultural scene. Team members Sam DeAngelo, Melissa Kiessling and Ben Raymond, all currently enrolled or recently graduated from UMass Lowell, and have been hired to attend local cultural events and use social media to talk about their experiences.

(1/12/2015) Gov. Charlie Baker is planning to meet with UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan to announce two new financial commitments to the university. They include a grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and a gift from UMass Lowell alumni.

(1/12/2015) Professor Mia Bloom, author of a study on women in terrorism, told CBS News that young women from the West, like Paris suspect Hayat Boumeddiene, are sometimes easy prey for radical Islamic group.

(1/12/2015) Working dads who want to be happier at work should try spending more time with their children, new research suggests. The study was co-authored by Beth Humberd, an assistant professor at UMass Lowell.

(1/12/2015) American expert on radicalization John Horgan, director of the Center for Terrorism and Security Studies at UMass Lowell, warns that looming Canadian anti-terror legislation has the potential to imprison people who don’t pose a threat to society, while existing laws may conflate radicalized thoughts with terrorist actions.

(1/12/2015) Bobby Robins, UMass Lowell grad with a degree in English who finally go his chance in the NHL, is still struggling, just over three months later, with the symptoms of a concussion that he believes he suffered in his first NHL game and then tried to play through.

(1/12/2015) Among the finalists for the Weston school superintendent position is Jennifer Fischer-Mueller, deputy superintendent of teaching and learning at the Brookline Public Schools, who earned her Ed.D. in science education from UMass Lowell in 1998.

(1/10/2015) Two landmarks in Lowell could serve as venues if Boston is selected as the host of the 2024 Olympics. The Merrimack River, which is longer, wider and with fewer bridges than Boston's Charles River, would serve as the Olympic rowing venue in 2024. And the Tsongas Center is being considered for a boxing venue.

(1/12/2015) FUEL, an acronym for the organization’s old name, Families United in Educational Leadershi, has financial agreements with several schools, including UMass Lowell, which offers scholarships only available to FUEL students.

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(01/12/2015) Greg Denon, assistant dean of student affairs at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, said recent grads hired by medical-device companies for entry-level jobs are starting at $55,000 to $60,000.

(1/12/2015) "If you're a resident living around this, it will affect your septic system, it will affect your well, it can affect the stability of a roadway," said Ingeborg Hegemann, a professor at UMass Lowell who specializes it wetlands science and building projects.

(1/8/2015) In September 2014, veteran jazz agent and alum Katherine McVicker decided to hang her own shingle out, opening her own booking agency Music Works International, based in Reading, about 12 miles north of Boston.

(1/9/2015) As Boston nabbed the U.S. Olympics bid Thursday night, it carried a flame for Lowell with it. UMass Lowell -- which has a boathouse on the Merrimack River -- has partnered with the Boston 2024 team.

(1/8/2015) William Lazonick, writing in Harvard Business Review, explained how CEOs have gone from being “makers” of jobs and the economy to “takers,” through a transfer of value from the organizations they are managing to shareholders and themselves on a macroeconomic scale, through $3.4 trillion in share buybacks over the last 10 years.

(1/9/2015) Working dads who want to be happier at work should try spending more time with their children, new research suggests. The study was co-authored by Beth Humberd, an assistant professor at UMass Lowell.

(1/9/2015) Senior Shannon Samuels scored 10 of her game-high 26 points in the second half as the UMass Lowell women's basketball team handled UMBC, 75-62, for its first America East Conference victory of the season at the Tsongas Center on Thursday.

(1/9/2015) Bedford Police Department officer Timothy Barry, 22, joined the force in November and follows in the steps of his father and grandfather, who served in Lexington. He is working toward his bachelor's in criminal justice at UMass Lowell.

(1/9/2015) Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) Vice President Bedross Der Matossian welcomed guests back on Nov. 22 to the final session of the conference “Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th-20th Centuries.” The final speaker was Dr. Gregory Aftandilian, an associate of the Middle East Center at UMass Lowell.

(1/7/2015) Amid speculation that he might be a leading contender as Robert Caret's successor as President of the UMass system, Chancellor Marty Meehan said he is staying put at UMass Lowell for a least the next several years to see through several ambitious education projects.

(1/7/2015) Mia Bloom, a professor of security studies at UMass Lowell, tells Daily Intelligencer that the highly trained gunmen may have been too valuable to waste on such a mission — especially given that a suicide attack would have only required one bomber.

(1/8/2015) Freshman Matt Harris recorded a personal-best 17 points to pace the UMass Lowell men's basketball team in a thrilling, 73-61 overtime victory at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County Wednesday night.

(1/7/2015) Weston School Superintendent finalist Jennifer Fischer-Mueller, who now serves as deputy superintendent of teaching and learning at Brookline Public Schools, earned her doctorate in science education from UMass Lowell in 1998.

(1/6/2015) Jessica Garb of UMass Lowell, along with a team of collaborators in the U.S. and the U.K., has been studying the spider's genetics, protein expression, and venom content, searching for clues about just how the black widow spider's venom evolved to be so potent.

(1/7/2015) Oliver Kayego of West Springfield, a junior electrical engineering major, is one of five UMass Lowell students who designed, built and tested a prototype solar-electric-powered taxi which can ferry passengers at 25 mph without consuming a single drop of gas.

(1/7/2015) The 2015 Wednesday Winter Intersession Program of the Learning in Retirement Association (LIRA) is offered free to retirees and those who are semi-retired. It is a sample of LIRA's year-round program and its friendly community.

(1/7/2015) HCTV is looking forward to opening a production studio in the new Harbor Place development planned downtown that is to include a UMass Lowell satellite campus, and also doing more with local small businesses.

(1/5/2015) In June 2013, the Archdiocese Planning Office bought Newman's Furniture building at the Merrimack Street end of downtown in order to partner with the Greater Haverhill Foundation to build the Harbor Place development. That project centers on replacing the long-vacant Woolworth building with a new building to include a UMass Lowell satellite campus as well as a restaurant, offices and other businesses.